I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2011
Interview
2 Phone screens
Combined Phone screen time : 90 mins
1'st Interview:
1. Convert 255 to Hexadecimal
2. Difference b/w Overriding and Overloading
3. Abstract Classes/Interfaces
4. Primitive Data types
5. Write a class (and narrate it on phone with syntax), to find if a linked list is a looped linked list or not. Note that looped LL is different from circular LL.
Total Interview Time: 40-50 mins.
2'nd Interview:
1. Abstract Class and Interfaces
2. Overriding and Overloading
3. Primitive data types
4. Current Job responsibilities
5. Write a class and narrate it on phone with syntax, which has a method with parameter that takes in a list/array of strings. The method should return a list of Integer values, each denoting which position element of the input array is an anagram (compare to all elements in the list).
Total Interview Time: 40-50- mins.
Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Amazon
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Sydney)
Interview
I can't comment much. I submitted an application for the software engineer position, and not even a minute later, I received an auto rejection email from Amazon (never received an online assessment).
2 behavioral 2 coding not very difficult. Behavioral is tell me about a time you took responsibility beyond your role and biggest accomplishment. The process is exactly the guideline they posted for interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me about a time you took responsibility beyond your role
It was a 2-3 round process, depending on how your interview went, with increasingly hard DSA questions followed by some HR and behavioural questions. First round was mostly easy and medium leetcode, followed by medium and hard questions in the second round and above on more complex topics.
